SF News Day Around the Bay: Fair Amount of Fan Mayhem at A’s Last Ever Game in Oakland A battery fire in a garage briefly shut down Cesar Chavez Street Thursday; Gavin Newsom vetoed a reparations bill; and there were a few incidents of fan rowdiness as the Oakland A’s won their last-ever game in Oakland.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Mistakenly Print Up “A’ss” Hat, Quickly Remove It, Now It’s Selling for $5,000 on eBay I’ve heard the term “asshat,” but this is ridiculous. Major League Baseball printed up Oakland A’s hats that appear to say “A’ss,” and while they immediately yanked them, some fans still managed to buy one, so now they’re on eBay for $5,000.
Bay Area Sports A’s Fans Tried to Steal Seats From Coliseum Tuesday Night, But Did Not Successfully Steal the Seats In the third-to-last ever Oakland A’s home game Tuesday night, a couple fans ripped their seats out of the Oakland Coliseum. But they reportedly did not manage to leave the Coliseum with those seats, and could face charges.
Bay Area Sports Rumors Flying That the A’s Might Stay in Oakland for Another Year, or Even Longer One of Major League Baseball’s most prominent agents has stirred the pot about the possibility of the A’s staying in Oakland for another year or longer, and it may be significant that the players’ union has still not signed off on the deal for the A’s to play in Sacramento.
Bay Area Sports City of Oakland Sells Off Its Stake in Oakland Coliseum for a Reported $105 Million With the Oakland Raiders long gone and the Oakland A’s having one foot out the door, the deficit-strapped City of Oakland just struck a deal to sell their 50% stake in the Oakland Coliseum to the African American Sports & Entertainment Group for more than $100 million.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Are Officially Moving to Sacramento for the Next Three Seasons This will in fact be the final season that the Oakland A’s play in Oakland, as the team officially announced Thursday morning that they’re moving to Sacramento to play in a rinky-dink minor-league ballpark while their Las Vegas stadium gets built.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Release Renderings of Proposed ‘Spherical Armadillo’ Las Vegas Stadium, To Widespread Mockery The sun is literally setting in the wrong direction in the Oakland A’s seemingly AI-generated new renderings of their proposed Las Vegas ballpark, which may be a metaphor for this troubled stadium gamble.
SF Politics A’s Biggest Roadblock to Las Vegas Could Be Set By… Former SF Supervisor Chris Daly? A blast from San Francisco’s political past could help shoot down the Oakland A’s proposed move to Las Vegas, as former SF supervisor Chris Daly is now the political director for a Nevada ballot measure and lawsuit that could be Oakland fans’ ace in the hole to keep the team.
Bay Area Sports A’s Negotiating to Stay In Oakland Three More Years, Because They Have Nowhere Else to Play The Oakland A’s are dragging their tails into negotiations with the City of Oakland and Alameda County to continue playing at the Oakland Coliseum through 2027, even though they’re still planning to move to Las Vegas, because they don’t have anywhere else to play.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland A’s Getting First Woman Primary Play-By-Play Announcer in MLB History The vacant Castro flower shop space for Ixia has a new tenant, Pinterest has unloaded their former headquarters as a sublease, and the Oakland A’s have hired the first-ever woman to be their primary play-by-play announcer.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Fans Teaming Up With Nevada Schoolteachers to Block Team's Move in ‘Schools Over Stadiums’ Campaign An unlikely alliance could be an ace up the sleeve of A’s fans hoping to keep the team in Oakland, as they’re teaming up with the Nevada State Educators Association teachers’ union to push a ballot measure to block the new Las Vegas stadium.
Bay Area Sports Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Had Secret Meeting With MLB Commissioner To Keep The A’s, But Struck Out Swinging Tuesday night’s MLB All-Star Game heard A’s fans chanting “Sell the team!,” but we’re also now learning of a secret meeting between Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred before the game, though Manfred balked at Thao’s case.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Fans Plan ‘Reverse Boycott’ At Tuesday Night’s Game To Protest Possible Las Vegas Move The elephant of Oakland Athletics fandom will roar Tuesday night, as an A’s-Rays game will see a “reverse boycott” intended to show Major League Baseball that Oakland has better fans than Las Vegas ever will.
Bay Area Sports A’s Announce Agreement for New Vegas Ballpark, One Week After Bailing On Previous Vegas Ballpark The Oakland A’s claim they have a done deal to build a stadium at the Tropicana casino site on the Las Vegas Strip, though they just backed out a similar land deal last week, and the whole scenario is contingent on $400 million in yet-unapproved Nevada taxpayer money.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A’s Move to Las Vegas Looks Like a Done Deal, Team Just Bought Stadium Site, But Who Knows A wild Wednesday night of developments loaded the bases for the Oakland A’s to move to Las Vegas, as the A’s organization bought land for a stadium, Major League Baseball blessed the deal, and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao declared she was done negotiating with team executives.
Bay Area Sports Feral Cats Overrun Oakland Coliseum, Authorities Decide to Just Let Them Have Their Run of the Place A feral kitty committee of 30-40 feral cats is expanding and “having a field day on the A’s turf,” and stadium authorities have decided to simply cede the place to them, but will attempt to have the cats spayed and neutered.
Bay Area Sports A’s Pitcher Hits Cheating Houston Astro With Pitch, Oakland Crowd Roars with Approval Fans don’t normally cheer wildly when a batter gets hit by a pitch, but the Houston Astros’ World Series cheating scandal is clearly on the minds of Oakland A’s fans.
Bay Area Sports Proposed A's Ballpark On Oakland Waterfront Clears First Legislature Hurdle The proposed new ballpark for the Oakland A's on the Howard Terminal site near Jack London Square has inched forward Tuesday in what is likely to be a complicated approval process at the state and local level.
SF News Billy Beane's Water Use Was 24 Times That Of His Neighbors This Year The Executive Vice President of the Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, is a rich man. And, as is often the case with rich men, Beane appears to be used to getting what he wants.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Meet The Man Who Invented The Wave At A 1981 A's Game Like it does when performed at a ballgame, the wave has to start somewhere. And so it did in Oakland with "Krazy George," the professional fan and cheerleader who concocted the move for
SF News For LGBT Pride Night, A's Pitcher And Girlfriend Prepare To Pack The Stands Oakland A's closer Sean Doolittle and his girlfriend Eireann Dolan aren't just gearing up for the start of the regular season. They're already looking ahead to June, when the team will host its
SF News Visiting Baseball Club Forced To Take BART, Expensive Cabs To Oakland While most of us were well aware of last weekend's big Bay Bridge closure and unveiling, the Tampa Bay Rays — who were in the Bay Area for a series against the A's — apparently
misc Jason Giambi Returns To The A's. What For? When he came up with the A's, he grew into a genial homespun hero. Then he left for money, and became a steroided diminishing-returns disgrace. Now he's back in Oakland? What-th'-hell Couldn't he
SF News RIP: A's Pitcher Joe Kennedy Former A's pitcher Joe Kennedy, 28, died at his home in Florida this morning. At this time the cause of death is officially unknown, but it was "sudden" and a brain aneurysm is
